PERFORMANCE
Alma Suljevic

Alma Suljevic is a sculptor. Her earlier works show a preference for classical sculpture material (iron). She does not, however, consider the sculpture--which she uses as her basic starting point--in an orthodox way and easily steps away from the initial model. And she freely selects and uses "non-artistic" materials, in accordance with the occasion and need. Moving from large-scale iron sculptures of fragile biomorphic forms (painted in red, these can even be read as bloody grass) to original mine-field maps (the kind that are used for deactivating mines), which she places in various positions in individual spaces, she then interferes with them, ritually destroying them by writing her traumatic memories of war over them. The message can read: WARNING!! The killings in Bosnia are not over--there are over three million mines "planted" here, and they kill dozens of people daily and will continue to kill people in the next several generations.

Dunja Blazevic, Woman of the war (extract)

PART OF THREE YEARS GALLERY10m2...

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